title: Preparing nurses to work in primary care: educators' perspectives.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report nurse educators' perspectives of the appropriateness of pre-registration nursing education programmes in preparing nurses to practise in primary care.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected through semi-structured telephone and face-to-face interviews with eight nurse educators, and were subject to thematic analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nurse educators believed that nursing education programmes did not adequately prepare newly qualified nurses to work in primary care because they provided limited experience in this setting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Factors such as shortage of practice placements in primary care and lack of mentors to supervise and support students were identified as major barriers to student learning and subsequent preparedness to work in primary care.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Sheffield, Sheffield.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Albutt
authors.forename: Parveen
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ali
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D006113:United Kingdom